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Pitching for pants

Stephen Waddington

Timeline Brief sent to agencies 24 February Proposals to Skidz 28 February Pitches (Skidz office) 3 March Agency appointed 10 September Post script If you’ve read this far you’ll appreciate that this is satirical post and a bid to poke fun at daft briefs. I added this post script for the people on Facebook and Twitter that didn’t.

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How the New York Public Library’s Blog Mobilizes Communities

Cision

And for nonprofit organizations on a budget, blogging can often be the most effective way to engage and mobilize communities. Get our free “2015 Nonprofit PR Kit” filled with content creation tips, pitching tips and more! Our biggest growth spurt was 150 percent between 2010 and 2011. Are you a nonprofit?

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3 Essential PR Trends to Monitor in the New Year and Decade

PRSay

At the risk of sounding old, 2010 seemed like just yesterday. And people still faxed pitches! And if you’re looking for avenues to explore in this arena, might we recommend building out messaging around sustainability, corporate citizenship and community relations. Yet, in reflection, so much has changed.

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This AI is ‘Taylor’ Made for Media Relations; PRophet Adds Generative AI to PR Software

Sword and the Script

Former PR agency leader is a building software product focused on improving PR pitches with two different types of artificial intelligence I’ve started to use ChatGPT to rewrite and suggest alternate headlines. In 2010, he sold his agency to an advertising holdings company for an estimated $10-$15 million.

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Meet the Media: Vince Bond, Reporter at Automotive News

Bianchi Biz Blog

What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Don’t pitch story ideas, pitch sources. It would have to be the PR folks who send mass emails with irrelevant pitches. I graduated from Michigan State in 2010 after transferring from Delta College, a community college in Saginaw.

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MeasurePR: Paywalls, Pitches And Prognoses

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali MeasurePR: Paywalls, Pitches And Prognoses December 23rd, 2010 Tweet On Wednesday, we held this year’s last #measurePR Twitterchat. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Is Public Relations Management a Technology? [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Around 2010, I worked for a PR software vendor that occasionally rattled the CRM idea, but it never really got traction in the market. New features the company highlighted is personalization – the ability to add the first name of a contact to an email pitch – and more flexibility to update your media list.